BIB_ID
343432
Accession number
MA 152.12
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1764 June 25.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 31.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "Mr. William Strahan / Printer, Newstreet Square / Shoe Lane / London / per Capt. Hammet."
Part of a collection of letters of Benjamin and William Franklin to William Strahan; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters of Benjamin and William Franklin to William Strahan; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan at the Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker sale in Philadelphia, December 14, 1905, lot. 284.
Summary
Concerning the debts of [Benjamin] Mecom; thanking him for his letters saying "Your Political Letters are Oracles here, I beseech you to continue them."
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